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You may visit our website at www.cseindia.org. perspective that seeks to bring Page No. 1 Contents OVERVIEW Anil Agarwal … … … … … … … …2-13 From the Director … … … … … … …14 Perspectives … … … … … … … … … …15 INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT A framework for change … … … …16-17 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS Pushing for solutions … … … … …18-37 Green messenger … … … … … …38-43 Building capacities in society … …44-47 Green treasure trove … … … … …48-49 Lending a helping hand … … … …50-51 Quote, unquote … … … … … … …52-53 Events … … … … … … … … … …54-55 In print … … … … … … … … …56-59 RESOURCES Financial overview … … … … …60-61 CSE’s executive board … … … … … …62 Award … … … … … … … … … … …63 Who’s who at CSE … … … … … … … 64 “I have never been worried about the Earth. I’m worried about human beings. I was trying to understand what India is all about, what India’s people are all about. And that is how I stumbled upon the Earth. I realised that they have a deep relationship with the Earth, and that is why Earth became important to me.” 2 Annual Report 2000–2002 ANIL AGARWAL• 1947~2002 n January 2, 2002, Anil Agarwal philosophy. He saw in the movement the Gandhiji was an ordinary passed away after a long and painful spirit of non-violent protest, the spirit of caring battle against cancer. He left all of us and sharing, and the spirit of self-reliance, O man, but exemplified at CSE orphaned, but left us with little time to among many other things espoused by mourn him. And he left behind the huge Gandhi. He acknowledged his debt when he responsibility of walking in his footsteps to delivered the 1987 Gandhi Peace Foundation three qualities — anger, fulfil the mandate he had chalked out for lecture: “In many ways, Gandhiji has been my CSE. But he also left us the means to carry out guru in helping me to understand my country perseverance and the tasks he had set for us — a rich legacy of and my people.” his thoughts, ideals, passion, commitment, At this point, Anil also read Gunnar strength and anger. As we look back on what Myrdal, who had just published his volumi- humility. I have tried to he was, and what he meant to all of us here, nous work, the Asian Drama. Anil met Myrdal we also look forward in hope and confidence at the Stockholm Conference on the Human live by Gandhiji's that we will fight the battles that he had Environment in 1972, when he was just fought, and we have the determination to win beginning his journalistic career. Myrdal said principles, but these these battles. to Anil: “Books are like time bombs. If the ideas contained in them are of value, they Early influences will explode one day. And if they don’t, they are very tough things will be consigned to the dustbin of history.” "For me, understanding the subject of These words stayed with Anil throughout his to live by and I have a environment has been a long journey life and moved him to produce the State of into an understanding of my own culture. India’s Environment series, books that I wanted to search for and understand my profoundly influenced Indian developmental long way to go India. It was a very internal drive which policies. Business India listed The State of became a life-long passion." India’s Environment: The Second Citizens’ Report (1984-85) as one of the 15 most Anil Agarwal graduated as a mechanical influential books of the post-Independence engineer from the Indian Institute of period in India. Technology, Kanpur, in 1970. He grew up Later, when Anil became impatient for within the ambience of that great idea of the results, he used the same idea to develop his modern world: the idea of science and knowledge-based advocacy. His successful technology. Towards the end of his formal campaigns on clean air for Delhi, and education, he began to wonder how he was empowering people to manage their water going to put to use all what he had learnt at resources, were borne out of his ingenious this prestigious institute in order to solve the idea of shortening the fuse of literary time problems of his country. Realising how little bombs, so that they would explode sooner he knew of India or of its problems, he and lead to action. decided that he first needed to explore and Myrdal also said to him, “You have the learn what the country was all about. He read biggest strength in your country — it is a many books in an effort to understand India democracy.